(from kittydesade 's Arcana)

THE TRAGEDIENNE

The Tragedienne is a popular archetype in noir, political commentary, and romance fiction. In any genre where a happy ending is not only not guaranteed, but almost forbidden, one is likely to find a Tragedienne. She carries within her a great drama that will be written out in the course of her life. Most often she is not careful and the grief that comes to her is of her own foolishness or her own indirect making, although that is largely due to the contrivances of the plot and the purpose with which the story is written. Tragic characters most often are so because there is a lesson to be learned. In real life, one has the ability to learn the lessons before it is too late, and the point of no return rarely exists in so certain a form.

The Tragedienne is usually an innocent or an admirable character. There is very little of malice or mischief about her, although she has the bad luck to fall in with a bad crowd. Perhaps she falls in love with someone she should not (a Sorcerer or a Blade) or she is the victim of someone close to her in her youth. Or perhaps she is caught up in the wrong place at the wrong time. Whichever the cause, over the course of her life she continues to make her decisions as reactions, rather than actions. She is caught along in the wave of the drama surrounding her and carried to an unhappy ending. The most famous example of this is most likely the titular heroine of Romeo and Juliet, although Romeo himself does not escape this. She reacts out of love, to her parents' plans for her and to the consequences of Romeo's duel. It might have been better, or at least more cleanly cut, if he had adopted the sense and restraint of Benvolio, or if she had simply run away instead of concocting a ridiculous plan of false death.

More often than not, even the tragic ending is directly of her own making. Tragediennes who endure the most prominently throughout history and fiction tend to be suicides, either when her life has gone on beyond bearing or in the course of martyring herself for a cause or a person. In the rare cases that her story doesn't end with her untimely and tragic death, she often runs mad from isolation, from grief, or from some overwhelming, pyrrhic gift.

1) The League
2) Home
3) My dad
4) My mom
5) Gideon
6) Danny
7) Sam

Bold if true

Appearance:
I am 5'4 or shorter.
I think I'm ugly sometimes.
I have many scars.
I tan easily.
I wish my hair was a different color.
I have friends who have never seen my natural hair color.
I have a tattoo.
I am self-conscious about my appearance.
I have/I've had braces.
I wear/wore glasses.
I'd get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free, scar-free.
I've been told I'm attractive by a complete stranger.
I have more than 2 piercings.
I have piercings in places besides my ears.
I have freckles.

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1) I used you and I'm sorry. Doesn't change the fact that you're fucking crazy.
2) Should've stuck with the skateboarding, dude. Now you're not only a douche, you're a sellout douche.
3) You are so not as good in bed as you think you are.
4) I used you and I'm sorry. Doesn't change the fact that you're a psychotic bitch.
5) Look, I know I was wrong, but what's your damage? I didn't even mean anything to you.
6) See above.
7) It doesn't matter what you do. I'm not crawling back. Ever. Get used to the idea that you can't actually have everything you want when you want it.
8) I don't think I've ever had a friend like you, which makes me think that maybe I've never had a real friend, and that's depressing.
9) Dude, you kinda scare me a little.
10) You're without a doubt the nicest guy I've ever dated slept with. I'll end up fucking you over cause it's what I do. I'm sorry in advance. Please don't be number eight.







ooc: 1) matt, 2) lucas, 3) todd, 4) roxy, 5) kyle, 6) ken, 7) gideon, 8) jo, 9) bobby, 10) sam

continued from here.


Ramona stopped yanking at buttons long enough to lift her arms and let him skin the light purple sweater she was wearing off and over her head, leaving her in a surprisingly classy bra (because no matter what she might be wearing, she liked what was underneath to be sexy and girly), her skirt and her thigh highs. A skirt she was very thankful for a moment later when he effortlessly lifted her off of her feet and tugged her legs around his hips. She made a soft, whimpering noise of approval and shoved his shirt open, so that her hands could roam freely across hot, sleek bare skin and hard muscle. And there was a lot to touch, the muscles of his shoulders and back shifting and tensing beneath her palms, God, she wanted to trace every curve and dip with her tongue. The thought had her yanking the material off of his shoulder, breaking the kiss to duck her head and press her lips to his shoulder instead, sweeping her tongue across his skin and humming in approval at the taste of him.

So, Ramona’s portrayal in the film version of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World leaves a lot of things about her unanswered--as it was supposed to. She’s meant to be a mysterious dream girl to Scott. This is all well and good in the film, but leaves me some questions in actually playing her. So, here is a little list of head-canon bits and pieces, things I’ve gathered from interviews with Mary Elizabeth Winstead, the film producers, and probably even a few teeny things from the comic. More to be added as it pops into my head and Ramona develops as a character.

1) Her full name is Ramona Victoria Flowers.
2) She is 24 years old, and was born on January 19th of 1986.
3) She was raised in upstate New York, until her teenage years, when her mom moved to the city.
4) She was not an only child. Her brother was born four years after her. His name was Daniel Robert Flowers. They called him Danny.
5) Since her brother wanted Ramona’s name to match his, he called her Rammy. Ramona doesn’t allow anyone else to call her by that nickname.
6) Danny got away from Ramona’s parents one day when they were out shopping. He ran out in front of a car. Ramona saw the whole thing happen and was more than a little traumatized by it. She was told later that she picked up Danny’s sneaker from the sidewalk and refused to let anyone take it from her for days.
7) She still wears the shoestring from Danny’s shoe around her neck.
8) Her parents divorced two years after Danny died. Her dad stayed upstate, her mom moved to the city. The custody battle was bitter and ugly and Ramona felt like a chew toy being yanked between two really pissed off bull dogs.
9) She wasn’t a very nice kid in high school, which she’d admit to, but she also wasn’t a bully. She just...had issues.
10) Out of all her relationships, she thinks Todd was her biggest lapse in judgment.
11) She doesn’t talk about herself except in tiny slivers of information here and there. She’s incredibly private, and as such, she deeply respects other people’s privacy.
12) The only guy she ever feels like she might’ve loved was Gideon, and she admits that it wasn’t the right kind of love, and was unhealthy.
13) Intimacy for her is not sex. Sex is…easy. Intimacy is opening up to someone. And, by that definition, she doesn’t get intimate with people, or very very rarely does.
14) She freely admits that most of her relationships, and what became of her exes afterward, is mostly her fault. She was really careless with a lot of people, and in a way, she feels like she deserves to have the League breathing down her neck.
15) She also fears that she can’t stop herself from repeating those mistakes, and that she’s doomed to ruin everyone she dates.
16) She was raised Catholic and attended a parochial school. She blames her aversion to wearing pants on the fact that she always had to wear skirts to school, and therefore still does most days.